Your Favorite Quotes

[ZiaLand]

I'm compiling a list of quotes and I'd like to see some of the favorites from members of the forum...especially those that might relate to horses or the TB industry. They can be from a book, a poem, portions of song lyrics, historical quotes, something original that you said or wrote yourself...anything, long or short. Just please credit the author if you know who it is. I'm collecting these for a future website and an office wall.

If you don't want to post them here, please feel free to PM or email me.

A couple of mine:

Do not mistake temptation for opportunity. --Fortune Cookie

Life always looks better from the back of a fine horse. -- Author Unknown

Also, someone on the forum made a post to this effect and I can't find it now, but I'd like to credit the author:

You have to be a dreamer in this business, because there is so much heartache.

Much thanks,
Laurie

[Sam]

There's a fine line between dream and delusion --

"Opportunity knocks because Temptation knows the key is under the mat" -- Author Unknown
"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but that doesn't keep the wise man from trying" -- Author Unknown

Let me get home and raid my siglines .. some of them I won't repeat publicly

[Sam]

oooh ... one I always loved and I think it's Rita Mae Brown...

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle."

[Sam]

"Ginger had the easy part. She only had to do whatever Fred did ... backwards and in heels" -- ???

I love that one, too.

[Crystal]

"in this business, you have to put your heart in your back pocket"

[Sam]

"in this business, you have to put your heart in your back pocket"

That's where I keep my wallet .. oh, I get it

[Jolene]

"The track's the only place where the windows clean the people." -Joe Lewis

[adrienne]

All from Brendan Boyd's "Racing Days". If you don't own it, you're missing out:

"The first time anyone sees jockeys they say,"Look how tiny they are." Jockeys battle their diminutitiveness counterproductively. They drive big cars, wear big jewelry, hang around with leggy babes. They seek association, get contrast".

"The excuses of horseman are genetic, and vague: "He wasn't himself today," "He couldn't grab the track." The excuses of bettors are equally generic, but specific: "That ride can't ride," "That trainer can't train."

"The racetrack empty, viewed from the grandstand, up the track, suggests every dream worth imagining, wheither descreditied, or still unknown."

"Great horses are intelligant and self-possessed. They don't get beaten. The classic horse will be this, and much more. It will have speed and stamina, an elegant head, a lithe body. It will do everything effortlessly, yet with passion. It will be above all enigmatic, beyond category. Of course, it's fictional, a notion better dreamed of than realized. If we saw it we probably wouldn't recognize it, or admit it. Anticipating the vision is what keeps us coming back."

~Adrienne

[Tairaterces]

see below (my signature line)

[Sam]

"The first time anyone sees jockeys they say,"Look how tiny they are." Jockeys battle their diminutitiveness counterproductively. They drive big cars, wear big jewelry, hang around with leggy babes. They seek association, get contrast".

The first thing a friend of mine said upon seeing a jockey for the first time was "He's not wearing any underwear".

I've been watching racing since I was 10yo ... never once looked to notice if Gary Stevens was a boxers or briefs man.

[Mahubah]

Sign originally belonging to Major Thomas of Dixiana Farm, which later came into the possession of August Belmont II: "Lightning rod and book agents keep out. Only a good horse wanted. All lovers of dogs and horses and all who will remain to dine with me welcome."

Joe Palmer on Man o' War: "He was as close to a living flame as horses ever get, and horses get closer to that than anything else."

[Sam]

"We've got horses that go fast and horses that go slow and for people who don't like horses, we got horses who don't like to be rode"

Used to hang up outside the tack room of the barn I hung out at.

[ZiaLand]

Some of these are perfect! Thank you!

Here's one I just found (in a horse merchandise catalog, of all places):

As long as we do not ask the horse to forget who he is,
He will remind us of who we want to be.

-Lynn Wolf

I put the head-on shot of Secretariat winning the Belmont next to that one.

Please....keep 'em coming!

Laurie

[Coquinerie]

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack-- D. Wayne Lukas

[Coquinerie]

add another Lukas quote--

"She should have the head of a princess, the butt of a fry cook and a walk like a hooker."